The Moscow City Court approved the verdict of Oleg Navalny in the “sanitary case”

The Moscow City Court upheld Oleg Navalny’s sentence in the “sanitary case.” Lawyer Nikos Paraskevov reported this on his Twitter.

On August 6, the Preobrazhensky Court found brother Alexei Navalny guilty of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 4 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code) during the rally on January 23. He was given one year of probation and a year of probation.

• The first case of violation of sanitary standards due to protests appeared in Moscow. Sentences in this case have already been handed down to Dani Akel , Lyubov Sobol , Kira Yarmysh , Nikolai Lyaskin , Oleg Navalny , Oleg Stepanov , Lyusa Stein , Dmitry Baranovsky and Maria Alekhina . Charges against municipal deputy Konstantin Jankauskas were dropped . All except Akel were accused of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules. According to investigators, the “inciters” published calls on social networks to go to a rally in support of Navalny, and Akel succumbed to these calls and went to the rally, although he was sick with coronavirus.
• In connection with the detention of Alexei Navalny, a series of protests took place throughout Russia. The largest protests took place on Saturday, January 23, and Sunday, January 31. The security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23, more than 4,000 people were detained, and on January 31, more than 5,500 . On the day the sentence in the Yves Rocher case was changed to a real one,arrests also took place near the Moscow City Court building, including journalists. In total, at least 90 criminal cases were opened across the country in the wake of the protests.
• The court recognized the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights (FZPG) and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny as extremist organizations on June 9, 2021. In July, Roskomnadzor blocked almost 50 websites associated with Alexei Navalny. In September, Roskomnadzor blocked the website of Smart Voting, an FBK initiative related to recommendations on the expression of will.